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Local improvement in planar facility location using vehicle routing

Salhi, Said, Nagy, Gábor (2009) Local improvement in planar facility location using vehicle routing. Annals of Operations Research, 167 (1). pp. 287-296. ISSN 0254-5330. (doi:10.1007/s10479-007-0223-z) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:22825)

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Abstract

In physical distribution the location of depots and vehicle routes are interdependent problems, but they are usually treated independently. Location-routing is the study of solving locational problems such that routing considerations are taken into account. We present an iterative heuristic for the location-routing problem on the plane. For each depot the Weber problem is solved using the end-points of the routes found previously as input nodes to the Weiszfeld procedure. Although the improvements found are usually small they show that it pays not to ignore the routing aspects when solving continuous location problems. Possible research avenues in continuous location-routing will also be suggested.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1007/s10479-007-0223-z
Subjects: Q Science > Operations Research - Theory
Divisions: Divisions > Kent Business School - Division > Department of Analytics, Operations and Systems
Depositing User: Said Salhi
Date Deposited: 29 Sep 2009 07:39 UTC
Last Modified: 19 Sep 2023 15:04 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/22825 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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